On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 7:31 AM Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 10:22:51AM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > > Would it be possible to build/install the libraries first and the > > utilities later, using the previously installed libraries? That would > > help to solve a chicken-egg problem between lsblk, and libudev, as > > described in > > > > https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=11811 > > It always uses in-tree libs to compile in-tree utilities. > > Anyway, all external dependencies are optional. For example you can > compile lsblk without udev. It's also possible to specify wanted stuff, > for example: > > ./configure --disable-all-programs --enable-libmount \ > --enable-libblkid --enable-libuuid > > to compile only libs. > > The best way is probably do it in two steps, in the first step > without dependencies, and in the second step rebuild all with > dependencies. For example: > > stage 1: > ./configure --without-ncurses --without-tinfo \ > --without-python --without-systemd \ > --without-udev > > make install > > ... compile udev, install libudev ... > > stage 2: > ./configure > make install This works but the libraries are build and installed twice, which is undesirable. Is there a way to skip the library installation in the second step? > > If I good remember distro bootstrap with util-linux is nothing unique > and it's used by Fedora, Suse, linuxfromscratch.org, ... > > > IMHO distro bootstrap is very special situation. For regular updates > is probably better to build util-linux in build root where are > already installed all dependencies (e.g. libudev) from previous > versions. > > Karel > > -- > Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> > http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- Carlos Santos <unixmania@xxxxxxxxx>
